Need help with HDMI stuff!!

Hi, I have an HDTV with HDMI port and my ASUS G1S also has an HDMI port, I've bought the HDMI cable and connected the two together. The picture came out fine but there's no sound out of the TV! somebody please tell me what the problem is and how to solve it!

Thanks for all the help!

 

your going to need a cable to hook up your computer to the tv for sound as well

ill look around and post back if i find a cable

 

AFAIK, I thought that HDMI carries both the video and the sound

 

There's been reports of some HDMI ports on laptops only carrying video, quite frankly making them DVI instead.

 

I know i had a problem on my new hdtv that would run no sound when i put it on hdmi mode just for normal tv. I had to go into the settings through the cable box and set it to hdmi. Maybe you should look into that. should be a settings key on your cable remote. just a thought

 

I did get a cable for sound too but even when i have them both connected the sound still won't come out, I went into TV's and laptop's sound options and all

 

what does the cable look like?

 

First, as others have said, the HDMI port is probably just carrying video. This happen on some AV receivers as well. Kind of goofy if you ask me as the point of HDMI was to consolidate HD audio and video.

Anyway, what cables are you using to hook your laptop up to the TV for sound?

 

Stereo cable with one end going into the 3.5mm plug in the laptop and the other going into the component port in the TV

 

Component? Like component video? What color is the port on the TV?

 

The OP probably means to 3.5mm jack to stereo.

 

By this i hope you mean that its going into ports that are audio ports that are red and white.

Video port is yellow.
component video is red, green and blue

 

Your TV might not accept audio through HDMI. My 42" Panasonic LCD HDTV Had HDMI Input but it's only for video. Right next to it there's a red and white analog connections for sound.

 

I dont have an ASUS but as per my hp manual while connecting the HDMI to HDTV, you need to set S/PDIF as the default audio playback device. Otherwise you will not hear any sound out of your TV.

Hope that helps.

 

well one end is the lilttle stereo plug you see on any headphones and the other end are two audio plugs that are red and white

 

Unless your TV's HDMI port have an option to take RCA input (on most Sharp models), you will not be able to get sound on your TV if the laptop HDMI does not carry audio (the case with the G1S). Connecting the 3.5mm to RCA to the audio port under one for the component inputs will not work as you'll have to switch input tio component to get sound.

Your only option is to connect to an external amp or speaker system like the logitech Z5500

 

Under your Playback Devices, do you have a HDMI option? You have to select this on my m1330 for audio over HDMI.

 

Thanks Wiz33

 

Yep, these are just pin shifted DVI ports.

 

yes - this laptop carries audio through hdmi - but like said above, you need to change the audio settings to digital output and not built in speakrs or anything else.

 

how do I do that?

 

nvm, I got the sound coming out of the TV now

but at my laptop's highest resolution, which is 1680x1050, the desktop's cut off on the TV